Ready-made

Planting trees and picking apples

Oatmeal and cheesecake

Hamburger patties and New York steak

Furnished home with a cooking wife

Productive career and stable husband

Perfect kids and rich schooling

Great friends and functional family

Neighbors you go to for a cup a sugar

Money is good and no relationship strife

Sound mind and passion for the outdoors

A yard without a fence because you know the hood is good

Breakfast is served with a twist

Lunch isn’t missed and dinner pleases the mind and heart

The conversations about the days ahead

Plans for future and the kids, kids

Perfect paper for school and your peers motivate and inspire

The best is yet to come

Retire to a distant land and your whole family can afford to visit you

And you, them

Pause

Haircare

Deodorant

Clothing

Bed

Food

People

Entertainment

Emotions

Experience

Desire

Expectations

Reasons

Results

Answers

Lies

Well made

Oversold

Overplayed

The ready-made

Life

Windmill strife

Clueless life

Broken home

All alone

Told the truth to many times

In a world founded on lies

You could have done things differently

But you are still a prisoner of the ready-made

Time cascades

Wind parades

And I still haven’t found what you’re looking for

And I still haven’t found what you’re looking for

Broken homes and aching hearts

All cry out the same

Makes no difference whose name

You call

Sure we’ll be there when you fall

But it will be you who pulls back

Pause

Now breathe.

Perfection

Somewhere in the middle of our ready-made lives

We find and lose ourselves

And make our own way

Some will cry the whole way

Some will be triumphant

Some will confuse themselves and others

Some will fail completely

But in all, we did what we had to do

To make all our lives livable

Now breathe.

Addicts and desolate

Mentally challenged

Crippled temples

And false prophets

Beliefs in old magic

Hopes lost in fire and time

Luckily we get pushed in wine

And toxicity to find escapes from ourselves

And the wars we can’t seem to end

Pause

And we love our ready made fixes

But the trick is not to attempt to fix what isn’t broken

The ready-made needs no fixing.

-Yeah right